Yeah we had a real run of shit happening in the Seventies. Even a brief toilet paper shortage in some regions. The Gas Crisis was caused by the OPEC cartel limiting production in order to drive up prices. In the USA, we wound up with rationing arranged so that if your license plate number ended with an even number, you went on even days, and if your license plate number ended with an odd number, you went on odd days. Soome stations also imposed ten-gallon limits.
Yeah we had a real run of shit happening in the Seventies. Even a brief toilet paper shortage in some regions. The Gas Crisis was caused by the OPEC cartel limiting production in order to drive up prices. In the USA, we wound up with rationing arranged so that if your license plate number ended with an even number, you went on even days, and if your license plate number ended with an odd number, you went on odd days. Soome stations also imposed ten-gallon limits.
That was the official story. In reality US oil companies dumped products into south America and other countries so as to not deliver to stations. It was a complete fraud. After it was over prices never returned. OPEC was blamed. They were all in it together.
That was the official story. In reality US oil companies dumped products into south America and other countries so as to not deliver to stations. It was a complete fraud. After it was over prices never returned. OPEC was blamed. They were all in it together.
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